Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to a Statute Law of the State, 28. köide |
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A father deeded to his son , as a compensation for his services , a piece of land ,
with a condition in the deed that the grantor was to have the use and
improvement of the premises during his life , if he should have occasion therefor ,
and ...
A father deeded to his son , as a compensation for his services , a piece of land ,
with a condition in the deed that the grantor was to have the use and
improvement of the premises during his life , if he should have occasion therefor ,
and ...
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No settlement was made by the parties , and no valuation was fixed to the land so
conveyed . In 1840 the defendant sold out that portion of his farm upon which he
lived , erected a house , barn , and out - buildings upon the land which he had ...
No settlement was made by the parties , and no valuation was fixed to the land so
conveyed . In 1840 the defendant sold out that portion of his farm upon which he
lived , erected a house , barn , and out - buildings upon the land which he had ...
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It is no defense to an action on a promissory note that its consideration , in part ,
was a piece of land conveyed to the maker , by the payee , by a warranty deed ;
and that the land was incumbered by a mortgage which the grantee has since ...
It is no defense to an action on a promissory note that its consideration , in part ,
was a piece of land conveyed to the maker , by the payee , by a warranty deed ;
and that the land was incumbered by a mortgage which the grantee has since ...
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On the trial , the court excluded the evidence offered for the purpose of showing a
partial failure of consideration for the note ; and the offer was , to show that the
note was given , in part , for the purchase of a piece of land , which was conveyed
...
On the trial , the court excluded the evidence offered for the purpose of showing a
partial failure of consideration for the note ; and the offer was , to show that the
note was given , in part , for the purchase of a piece of land , which was conveyed
...
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There are no correlative rights existing between the proprietors of adjoining lands
, in reference to the use of the water ... Such water is to be regarded as part of the
land itself , to be enjoyed absolutely by the proprietor within whose territory it is ...
There are no correlative rights existing between the proprietors of adjoining lands
, in reference to the use of the water ... Such water is to be regarded as part of the
land itself , to be enjoyed absolutely by the proprietor within whose territory it is ...
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Page 191 - This opinion does not deprive the states of any resources which they originally possessed. It does not extend to a tax paid by the real property of the bank, in common with the other real property within the state, nor to a tax imposed on the interest which the citizens of Maryland may hold in this institution, in common with other property of the same description throughout the state.
Page 82 - ... all, and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of action, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings...
Page 62 - ... that from the mere relation of master and servant no contract, and therefore no duty, can be implied on the part of the master to cause the servant to be safely and securely carried, or to make the master liable for damage to the servant, arising from any vice or imperfection, unknown to the master, in the carriage, or in the mode of loading and conducting it.
Page 325 - Had you called the porter and he had said that, although he had no recollection of the letter in question, he invariably carried to the post office all the letters found upon the table, this might have done...
Page 591 - ... where the proceedings are not according to the course of the common law, nor inrolled , such as the county-court, courts of hundreds, court-baron, &c.
Page 185 - CP 612, is in point in a case of this kind, viz., that he "could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence; that it was the same thing with the addition of a vituperative epithet.
Page 265 - In consideration whereof the said party of the second part covenants and agrees to and with the said party of the first part to...
Page 363 - ... the agreement is one which by the statute of frauds is required to be in writing.
Page 54 - ... proprietor of the land has a right to the advantage of the stream flowing in its natural course over his land, to use the same as he pleases, for any purposes of his own, not inconsistent with a similar right in the proprietors of the land above or below; so that, neither can any proprietor above diminish the quantity or injure the quality of the water which would otherwise naturally descend, nor can any proprietor below throw back the water without the license or the grant of the proprietor...
Page 502 - In such a case there is no room for any other appropriation than that which arises from the order in which the receipts and payments take place, and are carried into the account. Presumably it is the sum first paid in that is first drawn out. It is the first item on the debit side of the account that is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against each other.